Subsequent Initial Expeditions

Expedition

Similar experiences to Cameron Drake's Expedition  play out on Breaksky Island.   Captain Davos Rockfist, notably, leads one of the more successful instances of First Contact.

Across the next few weeks, similar stories to Cameron Drake's Expedition  would play out across each landing point on Breaksky Island. A ship would land, some valuable would be discovered nearby, and the intrepid explorers, soldiers, missionaries, pirates, and scholars would allow the elation at their newfound wealth to blind them to the island’s dangers until those dangers were actively upon them.   Of course, not all of the details were the same. In some places, the treasures were Ebonwood, Adamant, or gold. In others, the island’s guardians would be giant spiders, Sea Hags, or Chimera.   Some of the initial expeditions would never reach the land at all, and would be ravaged by flocks of Harpy or schools of Merrow before reaching the shore. Some of the expeditions would simply disappear into the sea, a phenomenon backed by a number of eyewitnesses despite meeting skepticism from most serious Breaksky Island scholars.   And some lucky, paranoid few were able to avoid tragedy at all. A mercenarial contingent from Deephammer led by Captain Davos Rockfist had so little faith in good fortune that he demanded his crew gather the easy treasures only while moving together in shield-ring formation. In this way, the Manticore that would have otherwise availed themselves of a hearty Dwarven meal instead found their tail-spikes blocked by sturdy shields and reciprocated by crossbow fire.   Captain Rockfist, in this way, made off with a sizable amount of worked Mithril from the shoreline while suffering zero casualties; rumor has it that he spends his days sipping ale on his own private island now.   No matter the particulars, it would not take long for word to spread of these initial contacts. The conclusions were clear. Breaksky Island was two things:

1. Extremely Profitable
2. Unfathomably Dangerous